Alan Powers

  • Sir Hugh Casson
    Review

    Sir Hugh Casson PRA – Making Friends

    2013-06-17T06:25:00

    Hugh Casson’s personality overshadowed his architecture, which is overdue a reappraisal

  • Radun Sanatorium Boarding House, Czech Republic, 1927, by Bohuslav Fuchs.
    Review

    How health and hygiene dominated inter-war modernist architecture

    2008-02-22T00:00:00

    Paul Overy’s book explores the links between the inter-war modern movement and social preoccupations with health and hygiene, writes Alan Powers

  • Make’s scheme for First Base proposes a new town centre and civic “hub” forthe former Greenwich Hospital site.
    Opinion

    Social housing’s ambivalent legacy

    2007-05-18T00:00:00

    The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings

  • Restoration to front portico: Mosaic Restoration
    Building Study

    A Russian resurrection

    2007-05-10T00:00:00

    The Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Kensington, west London, is a stylistically broad church: Italian in inspiration, Protestant in its interior and arts and crafts in its decoration. Now Richard Griffiths Architects has brought all the layers together in a rich, new interpretation. Photographs by Will Pryce and Morley von Sternberg

  • Lavish sculptural decoration at Jules Lavriotte, 29 Avenue Rapp, 1900-1, designed to advertise the client’s faience products
    Review

    Wealth of the unknown

    2007-03-02T00:00:00

    This book on the beaux arts movement reveals how much can be learnt from unnoticed Parisian gems.

  • Gamble House in Pasadena, by Greene and Greene, shows the distinctive style of the arts and crafts movement in the US.
    Review

    Beauty treatment

    2007-01-19T00:00:00

    The latest in a long line of books on the arts and crafts movement looks impeccable, but brings little new illumination.

  • Electroplate and ebonised wood teapot, designed by Dresser
    Review

    Snappy Dresser

    2004-09-10T00:00:00

    Modernist pioneer or Victorian master? Alan Powers lifts the lid on Christopher Dresser

  • Features

    Cathedral culture

    2004-04-02T00:00:00

    As all psychogeographers know, the most appealing features of urban landscape – the industrial wastelands, the unconscious anachronisms, the unreconstructed local distinctiveness – are the victims of regeneration and the heritage industry.